The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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